SPLIT LISTENING/READING

A: Amazon Rainforest Fires

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA7opFdGs7g

Stop at 2.45

Why are the following words or phrases mentioned? Take notes in order to
explain the situation to your partner.

Try to use the following vocabulary words when explaining what you have
seen.

Raging fires

Fires ravaging the amazon

Plunge into darkness

Billowing smoke

Scorch

Brush off concerns

Rates of deforestation have soared

EXTRA READING:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/23/amazon-fires-what-is-
happening-anything-we-can-do
 B: Great barrier reef

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/great-barrier-reef-dying-climate-change-caused-decrease-in-
new-coral-study-says/

Why are the following words or phrases mentioned? Take notes in order to
explain the situation to your partner.

mapping

holding its own

changing

bleaching

coral atlas

health of world’s reef

EXTRA READING: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/25/coral-

cover-around-popular-great-barrier-reef-islands-has-almost-halved